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noun (English)
1. Senses relating to animals.Examples: "I ſhall call this bird the painted vulture. […] the head and neck bare of feathers nearly down to the ſtomach, when the feathers begin to cover the ſkin, and ſoon become long and of a ſoft texture, forming a ruff or tippet, in which the bird by contracting his neck can hide that as well as his head: […]"; "In the ruffed grouse, the special "ruff" feathers are borne on the lateral branches of the lower cervical feather tract."
2. Senses relating to animals.Examples: "The Afghan urial, which is smaller than the Transcaspian urial, is found in the mountains near Iran's eastern frontier, and is the wild sheep of Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Its ruff is black sprinkled with white hairs and its bib is white."; "The creature coming toward me went instantly still. On the other side of the fire, one of them jerked upright and popped its ruff as wide as it would go. The other lunged to the side of the second and clamped one clawed hand around its muzzle."
3. (engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.Examples: "The stroke of the cut-off valves is very short, and the ruffs on the parts, g, g, regulate its length."; "This plate has a slot in it lengthwise to admit of its being shifted a sixth part of the circumference of the ruff,[…]."
4. (obsolete) An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.Examples: "Nay, how many Emperours and Princes, that in the Ruff of all their Glory have been taken down from the Head of a Conquering Army, to the Wheel of the Victor's Chariot?"obsolete
5. (obsolete) Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.Examples: "Thou must not pill and poll thy tenant, that thou mayest have, as they say, Unde, and that thy never enough, to ruffle it out in a riotous ruff, and a prodigal, dissolute, and licentious living."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.Examples: "The Ladies too were carp’d at, and their Dreſs, / He wants ’em all ruff’d up like good Queen Beſs!"transitive
2. (transitive, falconry) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.Examples: "Instantly the keen-eyed hawk "stooped," or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called "rifling," or "ruffing" it."transitive
3. (rare, transitive) To ruffle; to disorder.Examples: "Thenceforth the fether in her lofty creſt, / Ruffed of loue, gan lowly to auaile, / And her prowd portaunce, and her princely geſt, / VVith which ſhe earſt tryumphed, now did quaile: […]"; "To return to the thatching: Straw is not so durable as one could wish; besides, in very high winds, it is liable, if not reeded, to be ruffed a good deal; and the reeding, which is almost like counting the straws one by one, is expensive."; "I left my canoe below the fish lay, casting upward, so if I could hook a fish from shore I could lead him down without danger of ruffing the pool."raretransitive
4. (obsolete, transitive) Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.Examples: ""Scat," the crow said. I ignored him. He ruffed up his feathers, doubling his size."obsoletetransitive
5. (obsolete, transitive) To boast, to brag.obsoletetransitive
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.Examples: "[…] Mr Gillies ruffed and screamed out so loud in approbation, that he fell from his chair, and brought an American gentleman down with him."intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.Examples: "A Ruff, or Sea-bream. Melanurus."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).Examples: "Zia [Mahmood] ruffed the club return and then played the ace of hearts and a heart, leaving declarer with another spade loser for two down."; "The declarer may not have fear of losing control on trumps, because even after ruffing in one hand, the other hand will have sufficient length to draw the trumps. A 4-4 fit of trumps is considered to be the best and most convenient for the declarer. […] He can easily make 5 or 6 or even 7 tricks in trumps by way of ruffing once, twice or thrice in one hand."ambitransitive
2. (transitive) Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.Examples: "Then I played on diamonds, to ruff out the suit – but East had four diamonds and West none, so I had annoyingly to lose a trick to East's ♣K in the end."; "It never ceases to amaze me how many times people get in trouble by failing to first ruff out their sure losers."transitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A game similar to whist and its predecessor.Examples: "[W]hat ſhall wee haue a game at Trumpe or Ruffe to driue away the time, how ſay you?"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (music, often military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.Examples: "I also used quite a few of the flat-fingered kind of ruff (as used before on the doumbek in the baladi section) to embellish some notes."often
Definition source: Wiktionary